Amazon today unveiled an Android-powered Kindle tablet aimed at taking on Apple’s iPad, Bloomberg reports. The Kindle Fire will have a 7-inch display and sell for $199. Since it will run on Android, it will presumably be able to play movies, music, games as well as let people read books. Make sure to follow Gizmodo’s…
A listing for Batman Arkham City Xbox 360 Bundle popped up on Amazon’s German site over night. The bundle seems to include a copy of the game, a single controller, a headset and a black 250GB Xbox 360. The 360 doesn’t appear to have any sort of branding, which is a bummer. I was hoping…
Assault Horizon –Namco Bandai sent us this remote control helicopter to help prepare us for the coming of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. Felicia Day Steals The Show in Dragon Age II‘s Mark Of The Assassin Let’s start with my love of the Dragon Age universe, as well as Dragon Age: Origins. Man, I loved that…
Homeland Security officers detailed pro-gaming web broadcaster Victor “Spooky” Fontanez and seized his equipment Monday as he reentered the country following a fighting game championship in Toronto, Canada. Team Sp00ky’s laptop, cell phone and two camcorders were seized, according to the Detention Notice and Custody Receipt for Detained Property issued by the Department of Homeland…
A Maryland woman said she was surprised to find what appears to be an image of Jesus Christ on the top of a used Nintendo Entertainment System she purchased on eBay for $31 this week. Brittany Wampler, 24, tells Kotaku she noticed the image shortly after unpacking two NES consoles, she purchased from an eBay…
It’s always wonderful to see a worthy indie game slowly bud and blossom over time. In this case we’re talking about the underwater fantasy world of Aquaria which is, after winning awards at the Indie Game Festival and hitting Steam, now making a debut on the iPad this fall. The iPad version of the game…
A UK documentary examining possible connections between Muammar Gaddafi and the IRA apparently confused video game play for actual IRA footage of a helicopter being shot down. In the documentary Exposure – Gaddafi and the IRA, aired Monday night in the U.K., a voice can be heard saying, “With Gaddafi’s heavy machine guns it was…
The colorful, imaginative online game from the team behind Flickr and the man behind Katamari Damacy goes live today at 1 p.m. eastern. In Glitch, players ramble through the collective imagination of 11 god-like giants. The free-to-play world exists on a persistent, ever-evolving playground that is shaped not just by the game’s developers, but by…
Warhammer –This weekend marked my return to table top miniature gaming. I starting to dig into Flames of War, but I suspect a return to Warhammer is inevitable. Taking the Taboo Out of Mature Gaming It’s like clockwork; Moments after popping open any game that has a mature rating, my 10-year-old son seems to appear…
I’ve got a copy of The Lord of the Souls, the second Elder Scrolls novel, sitting on my night stand. It’s buried under a few other books I’ve got to read first. I’m hoping to eventually write something about what I thought of the book. But if you’d rather not wait and want to see…
The Greek Island of Limnos, home to Hephaestus’ forge and some spectacular beaches, is protesting their inclusion in upcoming shooter Arma 3. The local government says that their island is a “place of peace and creation” and that they don’t want it turned into a “scene for violence and battle.” Some of the footage in…
Wait! Stop. Don’t watch the video yet. First read the included bit of fiction sent along with the trailer. Can you guess which retro game remake this is for? 12 years after a nuclear war has wiped most of humanity off the map, the only survivors are radiation enlarged insects, with humans surviving by sealing…
This Google Chrome ad has been out for about a week, but I didn’t catch it until last night. In the ad, Peter Vesterbacka (CMO of Rovio), Jaakko lisalo (Senior Game Designer of Angry Birds) and Serdar Soganci (Web Games Manager) talk about the wonders of Google Chrome and the popularity of their game. You…
I haven’t played a tabletop game since my near-obsession with Warhammer back in my college days. But this weekend I decided to take the plunge again, this time with my 10-year-old son. We settled on World War II-era Flames of War While doing some research on the game I came across quite a few images…
It’s like clockwork; Moments after popping open any game that has a mature rating, my 10-year-old son seems to appear at my elbow to ask if he can play it with me. It’s a mix of things that draws Tristan to these games that he knows I don’t let him play. I suspect the fact…
Star Wars: The Old Republic launches on Dec. 20 in North America and Dec. 22 in European territories, Bioware and LucasArts said this morning. “This is an incredible moment for everyone at BioWare and our partners at LucasArts who have dedicated their lives to build this extraordinary game.,” Ray Muzyka said during the 2011 Eurogamer…
Fish of Fury –This gutted bird and a postcard of a furious fish showed up on my doorstep today. Blizzard: Diablo III Hits Early 2012 Looks like we’re going to have to make do with a beta for longer than some of us had hoped, Blizzard this morning said that Diablo III won’t be hitting…
Payday: The Heist is a first-person cooperative heist game inspired by some of the best in crime cinema. Here’s a look at a run, or attempted run, through Heat Street, the game’s caper loosely inspired by the movie Heat. Sorry, no Pacino or De Niro here, but plenty of gunplay. The game hits the Playstation…
The Tokyo Game Show didn’t just give us a chance to check out nearly three dozen games, it also gave us our first look at what Sony says is the final design for their PS Vita The changes between those first images released of the Vita and these final ones are pretty subtle, but if…
Last week we wrapped up our first experimental season of Retro Game Master Sure this is the Internet, but we thought it would be fun to run a full season of the first official U.S. airing of the popular Japanese television program, known as Game Center CX in Japan, as if it were airing on…
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